RE: Falling STEEM/SBD Price - Proposed Solution to the SBD Debt to Marketcap Ratio Problem
The reason it is there is because when the original platform was launched, the author of the post actually would get a share of all the comments payouts (to encourage posts that generated conversation). To keep the blockchain math simple, they put a limit of 6 on the nesting of how deep the payout would be calculated.
I wasn't there at the time, so I don't know why they did it - but they did remove this. The limit of 6 is just a legacy "feature" that they haven't gotten rid of yet.
Usually it is not on the whales and witnesses to actually solve code problems with the blockchain and code (although some of them do). The dev team is aware of this issue though, and it is one of the things they are planning to fix.
Where it is at right now is they are trying to come up with a clean design of how to have 20 level deep comments represented on a display that currently keeps indenting after each new comment. They are going to have to make an adjustment to the way the conversations are rendered in the GUI, and they are trying to figure out what the best solution will be.
By the time the site is out of beta, I'd expect this to be fixed.
my point is that 'they' can't even solve a small problem like that ... what hope do we have they can solve the big problems?!
Well if they weren't able to solve it, I would agree with you. They are going to be making a fix though, so I don't see it as an issue. If you have an issue with it not being ready "today", and that it is just something that will get fixed "eventually", then that is a different discussion. It is not a matter of "can't even solve a small problem like that" though - it is just one of time constraints and priorities.